Re: Coronation Street

As I said before, I no longer watch the current crop of Coronation Street for obvious reasons.

I have been watching regularly the older ones from 1998 on 'catch-up'.
Not only has it not yet crossed their minds to go all 'woke' and 'inclusive', but the characters in the old series are far more interesting and professional: Alec Gilroy, Jack and Vera Duckworth, Fred Elliott, Les Battersby and Emily Bishop, for example.

The storylines are also consistently interesting and there is an excellent mix of exciting events interspersed with humour in almost every episode. Something which is rarely seen in the current series which just goes plodding on featuring the required range of every possible race and sexual proclivity imaginable!

You should watch it! It really is much better.

Re: Coronation Street

I agree carol, it really upset Mrs Fox but the street has suddenly come alive. I think you have made a mistake to leave it just yet JB. I wonder if we are going to lose some characters after this. I was rather hoping that Harvey's goons caught up with Leanne, Nick and the annoying Simon.
I'm looking forward to Friday's edition when Holby City meets the Lost Boys...... Mrs Fox will be watching it from behind the sofa....

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Thanks OGF.

I think I did ask people to let me know if anything interesting should happen in the programme, so I've told Marge and she suggests we could watch Wednesday's and tomorrow's to see if it's worth returning for a while.

When it gets boring again, of course we can leave it again.

I would be grateful if anything else exciting should develop again in the future you or others might mention it on here!

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Was once full of faith, now faithless, Corrie has left me entertainmently destitute.

Re: Coronation Street

And the canned Heartbeat in favor of letting this continue??

Re: Coronation Street

Further to my last reply about the latest Coronation Street story, yes, a very exciting few scenes, so much so that I became quite angry.

Followed by the usual dragging out of the story, in fact it became really quite dreary after a while.

What a shame. An excellent storyline which should have been jumped on and extended, building up the excitement instead of beginning to send the viewer to sleep!

Nevertheless, we have decided to watch tomorrow's just to see - hopefully - how things turn out. I'd love to see the perpetrators arrested and sent down, possibly for murder?
On the other hand, I shouldn't be surprised if it is dragged out for another couple of days or so.

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I read the storyline will drag on for a year.

Heaven help us...

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Well, the Yasmeen one did!

On the other hand, the Dierdre one on the 1998 replays lasted less than a month, and other interesting stories wove around it all the time.

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From what V told me last evening, the Seb/Nina storyline will continue for at least the rest of this year and, probably, into next as well. Where she got that from I know not.

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Well I read that, too.